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Further information concerning bare boat charters in Greece and Turkey may be obtained by clicking
on the blue links immediately above. Thank You. Are you searching for a sailing yacht on which
to bare boat charter with family or friends in Turkey or Greece? Are you thinking of bare boat charter
sailing in Turkey with a sizeable party? Or of a bare boat charter with lots of friends cruising Greece?
If either, you might like to charter a yacht with group accommodations: five private cabins three of
which have double beds and two of which have over-and-under bunks. There are as well three water closets
with shower. Given a spacious salon below decks and an equally spacious cockpit on deck, there is plenty
of room for a large group to maneuver. A bare boat on which to explore history along the coast of Turkey
and among nearby Aegean islands of Greece. And while exploring history also basking under a warm sun and
swimming in clear seawater. Not the first but certainly one of the more admired figures creating history
here was an Athenian statesman and general by the name of Thrasybulus. Thrasybulus, meaning brave
willed, was born in Athens in the middle of the 5th century BC during Greece's Classical Period. He
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first came to the attention of history as a trireme captain at Samos off the coast of Turkey in 411BC.
At the time oligarchs there and in Athens attempted a coup and intended to come to terms with Athens'
Peloponnesian War foe Sparta. Successful in Athens, coup leaders failed at Samos when confronted by
democrats including Thrasybulus. Samian coup leaders, mostly military, were then deposed and replaced,
and Thrasybulus was elected a general of the sea. At the Battle of Cynossema which took place that same
year in the Hellespont (Turkish Dardanelles), Thrasybulus, sharing command of 76 warships, won a narrow
victory over a numerically superior Spartan fleet. This victory, coming as it did at a time when
Athens' democratic government had been replaced by an oligarchy, and when an Athenian defeat could have
ended the war, had an outsized impact. The newly confident Athenian fleet proceeded to win two more
victories in the Hellespont in quick succession, the first at Abidos and the second being a dramatic
rout in 410 BC at Cyzicus (Balikhisar). These victories ended the Spartan threat to Athens' grain
lifeline from the Black Sea, a lifeline in every sense of the word as the
terrain around Athens was already denuded of forest and the soil needed to raise
sufficient grain locally. Charter a bare boat to cruise in Thrasybulus's wake from Samos to Ephesus
to Lesbos to the Hellespont. Or to cruise in his 407 BC wake from Samos to the siege of Spartan Phocaea
(Foca), or in his 406 BC wake to the Battle of Arginusae (Ayvalik), an overwhelming Athenian victory,
rising during the interim to become Athenian head of state on three different occasions.
That's Thrasybulus in the wood prints arriving at and receiving an olive crown at Athens. Thrasybulus
was in 389 BC again in command of Athenian naval forces off the coast of Asia Minor. With a flotilla of
40 triremes he proceeded to re-establish Athenian hegemony from the Hellespont south to Lesbos, Chios,
and Samos, from there to Kos and Rhodes, and from there along the coast of Anatolia as far as Pamphylian
Aspendos (near Antalya) where in 388 BC he met an untimely end at the hands of over-taxed locals,
murdered at night while sleeping in his tent. "So perished Thrasybulus, a good and great man by
all admission," according to Xenophon, the only contemporary chronicler of note. Make your own
judgement! With The Landmark Thucydides and Xenophon's Hellenica in hand! Sail
Thrasybulus's path down the coast of Asia Minor and among Greek Aegean islands. While you holiday.
While you have a holiday with family and friends proceeding leisurely from one historically remarkable
locale to another. Yes, let us put you aboard a bare boat in which to charter the coast of Turkey and
among nearby islands of Greece. Starting in Samos. Are you searching for Samos in Greece? Well, its
ancient port of Pythagorion is about twenty nautical miles SW of Kusadasi (Ephesus) and not far from
its own international airport. In Pythagorion we can put you aboard a sailing yacht for the holiday of
a lifetime. We can put you aboard a charter yacht and show you Thrasybulus's many tracks north and south,
show you contemporary tracks of the Spartan super hero Lysander, and of the super hero Alcibiades,
sometimes Athenian and sometimes Spartan. Contact Blue Cruise Yacht Charters today at